
Acting
Alexander Waechter
Born 1948-07-24 · Graz, Austria
Alexander Waechter is an Austrian actor, director, and intendant.
Acting credits
8.0Vienna in the eighties. An accidental meeting in a restaurant. She, Hannah, is Jewish and has a live-in lover, a young and successful architect. He, Friedrich, is a German and lives permanently in Vienna. Two worlds collide with another, begin to become entangled in each other. Friedrich too, has his problems. He is a "German", which fascinates and repels Hannah at the same time. She tries to get over her confusion by being ironic and flirtatious. Simultaneously, what she has tried to suppress breaks through in flashbacks...
Kieselsteine
1983
5.0After being released from a mental asylum, a disfigured man becomes obsessed with a student at his sister’s boarding school while grappling with his dark past.
Bloody Moon
1981
4.2During the final days of the First World War, Officer Menis does his duty in defending the battle flag of the defeated Austro-Hungarian empire, while his fellow troops, a motley gang recruited from several different countries not loyal to the royal family, simply try to survive by any means possible.
The Standard
1977
No synopsis available yet.
Spiel im Schloss
1985
6.5It's 30 years later and the Sackbauers have estranged themselves from everyone; only mother "Toni" tries to re-establish the old happy family.
Echte Wiener - Die Sackbauer-Saga
2008
5.3Stefan Lindman is a police officer in Boros, Sweden. When his mentor and retired former partner Herbert Molin is brutally murdered in the remote town of Sveg, Lindman travels north to investigate. The more Lindman digs into the mysterious killing, the less he is sure to have known the man he feels so much indebted to...
The Return of the Dancing Master
2004
10.0Vreni and Sali are made for each other. But a momentous argument between their fathers over a field tears the lovers apart. Only when both families have perished does Vreni and Sali seem to have a chance to live their love - even if only for one night...
Ich gehöre dir
2002
NRKampl wants to bring love and inheritance matters into the right hands. His grandson Gabriel has plans about what's best for himself.
Kampl
2005
8.0Based on Joseph Roth's novella.
Stationschef Fallmerayer
1976
10.0Landowner Klapproth would love to have his nephew Alfred show him the inside of an insane asylum and meet real lunatics, promising to financially support him in starting a business. Alfred's friend Ernst Kissling recommends that he show his uncle the Schöller Guesthouse, whose guests are quite eccentric. Landowner Klapproth, who truly believes the guests to be lunatics, is thoroughly amused.
Pension Schöller
1978
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Leutnant Gustl
1979
No synopsis available yet.
Liebelei
1983
5.3The Sackbauer family unexpectedly inherits a villa with a large garden in a cottage district in Lower Austria. The villa itself is in acceptable condition, but the garden is less so. Mundl quickly sets about sprucing it up with garden gnomes, lanterns, and lots of love.
Echte Wiener 2 - Die Deppat'n und die Gspritzt'n
2010
9.0A faithful family has gathered around "Mundl": his wife Toni, who says little but always has the last word; his son Karli, who marries Irmi, a woman from "higher circles", and his parents-in-law, the Werners, who have some difficulty in getting accustomed to the coarse tones of the Sackbauer family. Then Mundl's daughter Hanni brings home a bespectacled intellectual, of all people, and altogether, everyday life in Vienna can be rather exciting.
Mundl - Ein echter Wiener geht nicht unter
1994
Behind the camera
No synopsis available yet.
Der Feldherrnhügel
1992
8.0No synopsis available yet.
Potasch und Perlmutter
1996
7.0Conductor Johannes Wildner leads the Philharmonic Orchestra Bratislava in a command performance of Johann Strauss's final operetta, "Wiener Blut" (Viennese Blood), at Austria's internationally recognized Mörbisch operetta festival in 1994. The production -- featuring a libretto by Victor Leon and Leo Stein -- showcases the choir of the Concert Union of the Wiener Volksoper and the Ballet of the Slovak National Theatre.
Strauss: Wiener Blut
1994